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I´m Florita Coto and professionally I´m Statistician , in this moment my career is in break because last year I moved with my family to Boston, MA. This year has been a great experience but at the same time a challenge, I spend time getting better English level and update my knowledge. I want to get a great job here, a job than can impact my life and the life of many other people.

I have been studying English in YMCA, but since March the classes was cancel because coronavirus pandemic. Now I´m very exciting to improve my English writing a blog whit a virtual group of YMCA, I can practice, review my experiences and prepare material for introduce myself while we can return at the formal English classes. I´m so gratefully with the teacher Grace for this initiative and all her dedication to help us whit that.

In this blog I will be talk about professional life of Statisticians, because when I chose my career, I knew Statisticians has diverse job positions and diverse areas to work, but now I have the experience in some of those. I´m passionate talking about what I had made and learnt, how statistic join in the different disciplines, and what we can do.

5 reasons why you should travel:

Networking: Meeting and interacting with other people that might have a different idea than you or maybe a different mindset or even from a different country with a different culture, and by that could add or exchange value to your life somehow. While travelling I've met people who had my dream job or that they do something I'd love to be doing but, in my mind, it was impossible, and if other people can do it, you can do it as well!

Language: While traveling you can definitely meet people from other countries as I mentioned above and by doing so you can have some language exchange. When I meet someone who speaks a different language than mine I try to learn and teach some simple things like how to greet, or things we can use on our daily routine.

Open your mind: by meeting people from other cultures and different ideas you're going to open your mind to new things and see the world from other perspectives as well and not only what you grew up with your whole life around your hometown with the same people, values and ideas.

Life experiences: Let me ask you something, when was the last time you did something for the first time? Hard to remember right?

It is hard to remember because we are so used to being in our comfort zone and doing the same things every day through our routine. So, when you travel, you’re putting yourself in something different than your comfort zone and that feels great, we never know what could happen and what we could experience but I’ll tell you, at the end this is a great feeling.

Last but not least, FOOD: During my whole life I haven't met someone who doesn't like food, I love it and it's great to try food from locals and from different cultures than ours, food that we're not used to it, trying the new.

I would like to share with you about biking along Charles River in Autumn Boston, MA, USA.

As a foreigner and stay in Boston only for a few years, I didn’t bring a bicycle when I moved to Boston three years ago. With busy life here always, I didn’t buy it along these years.

The thought of riding bike along the neighboring scenery Charles River is always in my mind especially when I passed by and saw the renting bike station…

After besieged at home for a few months because of Covid-19, I have suffered from health problems. So, I was forced to decide to leave home and go out to exercise so to save my health.

One weekend on mid-September this year, I emboldened, asked a colleague to accompany and went to a bike station, spent some time to download the Blue bike’s App and figure out how to register, with her help, I unlock a bike and rode towards Charles River!

It was a sunny day afternoon; we started the route from the Esplanade, passed Hatch Shell and kept riding for half an hour.

Along the trail, I could always see the river on my right hand side. Above the water, there are small yachts; racing boats and sailing boats together with wild birds and ducks. It is so beautiful and the weather was just right that a lot of people sit on the benches or under the trees. Friends, lovers, parents and their children are on the lawn, runners and bikers on the trail, and they all enjoyed September dusk.

We passed the MIT Doom, some bridges, a lot of buildings on my right hand side and Boston University buildings on my left side. The traffic was busy too, with a lot of vehicles passed by. But there is bike trail so it was very safe. (Except I needed to dodge peoples sometime)

I was very exciting and wanted to ride more but my colleague was tired so I was reluctant to stop, returned the bike and walked home.

I think that I am so lucky to have the bike station and the Charles River nearby that I can rent a bike and ride to. I will ride more before Boston harsh winter comes!